The Health Care Repeal Bill Would Double What Kentucky Must Pay for Medicaid Expansion
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) ends extra federal funding for states that expanded Medicaid eligibility, meaning Kentucky would have...
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What Combined Federal Cuts to Medicaid Would Mean for Kentucky
Kentucky’s Medicaid program is potentially facing enormous cuts to federal funding through the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and President Trump’s proposed budget. Nationwide, Medicaid as a whole would undergo...
CBO Shows 23 Million Would Lose Coverage Under Health Care Repeal Bill
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) review of the health care repeal bill passed by the House weeks ago estimates that 23 million Americans would lose coverage, many low-income and older...
What Trump Budget Proposal Would Mean for Kentucky
President Trump’s full budget proposal released today includes harsh, devastating cuts to critical poverty-reducing programs that provide health, nutrition and financial assistance to many Kentuckians. The budget also includes drastic...
Health Care Repeal Bill Would Squeeze In-Home Health Services for Elderly & Disabled Kentuckians
Important services that enable Kentuckians to receive needed care at home and in the community, rather than an institutional setting like a nursing home, will be cut back if the...
Kentucky Has Nation’s Most Rural Medicaid Expansion Enrollees, and AHCA Would Take That Away
For largely rural states like Kentucky, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a major boon for health coverage. There are 223,700 rural Medicaid expansion enrollees in Kentucky, more than any...
Study of Indiana’s Medicaid Program a Warning Against Kentucky’s Plans to Charge Premiums
A recent evaluation of Indiana’s Medicaid waiver program should stand as a warning for Kentucky policymakers attempting to similarly charge premiums in our own Medicaid program. While proponents of Kentucky’s...
Proposed Health Care Changes Would Hurt Kentucky’s Moms
Women, and mothers in particular, are especially at risk of losing access to healthcare if the American Health Care Act (AHCA) becomes law. While millions of Americans stand to lose...
Statement on House Passage of Health Law Repeal
Statement by Executive Director Jason Bailey on the passage of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) by the U.S. House of Representatives: “Today is a deeply troubling day for the...
House Health Care Bill Is an Even Worse Threat to Kentuckians
Let’s be clear, rather than a compromise, the new version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) makes a deeply harmful plan even more destructive. The original proposal, the House’s...